The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 121

Let it not fall into the raging sea, but hold it in thy large hands and bring it safe back to Pohyola’s lovely shore.”

Who acts: you, rage · What happens: let, not fall, rage, hold, bring back · To what, where: rage, raging sea, large hands, lovely shore

This is a sentence of «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, The Flight. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, rage), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	1 Let	obj
3	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	4 fall	advmod
4	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	1 Let	xcomp
5	into	into	ADP	_	8 sea	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 sea	det
7	raging	rage	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	8 sea	amod
8	sea	sea	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 fall	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 hold	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	11 hold	cc
11	hold	hold	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	1 Let	parataxis
12	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 hold	obj
13	in	in	ADP	_	16 hands	case
14	thy	thy	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch	16 hands	nmod:poss
15	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 hands	amod
16	hands	hand	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 hold	obl
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 bring	cc
18	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 hold	conj
19	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 bring	obj
20	safe	safe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 bring	xcomp
21	back	back	ADV	_	18 bring	advmod
22	to	to	ADP	_	26 shore	case
23	Pohyola	Pohyola	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 shore	nmod:poss
24	’s	's	PART	_	23 Pohyola	case
25	lovely	lovely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 shore	amod
26	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 bring	obl
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct
28	”	"	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	rage			tree rules
2	not fall	infinitive	rage not said here			into the raging sea result	vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into sea=Result
3	rage	gerund					vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	hold	present		rage	thy large hands		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Theme in hand=Location
5	bring back	infinitive		rage	Pohyola's lovely shore	safe property	vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to shore=Destination

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North» by James Baldwin, Project Gutenberg book 66819 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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🌲 The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 121

The tree

Pragmatics

The Sampo: A Wonder Tale of the Old North, The Flight, sentence 121